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“…The earth's sphere, with the first creation in the mind of the Creator, has kept its same Creative Energy, for God is the same yesterday, today and forever…”

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“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.”

Samuel Beckett, Proust^*

Mine is the generation that came of age as strains of “this is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius” wafted through the airwaves to our car radios. A lot of us eagerly looked for the signs of that dawning any day. Now, more than forty years later, we can look back on a number of dates and years that various prophetic voices declared to be the Big One. We've harmonically converged and fired the grid. We've awaited 1998, and once that year came and went, set our sights on 2012. It seems to me that for my whole lifespan thus far we have been waiting for the Big Event that would transform our world.

As I write this, anticipation continues to build all over the world around the great hope that many of the spiritually minded hold for December, 2012, as a pivotal point of prophetic destiny. As you read this, December 21, 2012, (selected largely because the Mayan long count calendar ended on that date) will have come and gone. Now what? (The joke will be on me if December, 2012, turns out to meet its advance press. But in that event, this book probably won't have been published, so it's all right!) Depending on how far this date has receded into the past, by the time you are reading this there may well be yet another future date that has become the object of much hope and—dare I say it?—hype.

It's understandable, really, this human tendency to latch on to particular times and dates as the fulfillment of our spiritual yearnings and the answer to the problems we face as a human race. Who can deny the allure of the expectation that in a single day or year all of our spiritual yearning will be fulfilled and that all of our unfinished business, our failures of will, discipline, and purpose, and our too-often lackadaisical service to a higher good will be swept aside in an influx of transformative grace such as this world has never known? And lest we think this date watching is a distinctly New Age phenomenon, we need only look to the Left Behind books, enormously popular among evangelical and fundamentalist Christians, as just one recent link in a chain of apocalyptic expectations that stretch all the way back to Jesus' disciples asking, “What will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age?”²

Nor can we deny that, historically, there have been many threshold times of great transformative significance. The harnessing of fire, the development of agriculture, the first writing of language, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution—these are just a smattering of examples of transformative epochs that forever changed the face of humankind on the earth. Each furthered the reach of our combined knowledge, culture, and know-how, and thus in each of these we can see what was, in its time, a truly new age that brought the peoples of the world a little closer together.